Earthship Pictorial
		by Jim Pettyjohn La Cueva Canyon EARTHSHIP Glorieta, New Mexico Welcome...... My name is Jim Pettyjohn and I built a house in northern New Mexico and I would like to share it with you. Back in 1992, I bought 20 acres outside Sante Fe in a little place called Glorieta, New Mexico. I have a beautiful gentle south-sloping meadow surrounded by National Forest and Indian Pueblo lands. With mountains all around, I have a wonderful view: My friends, Peter Wilson and Sandra Odom, and I built an Earthship. An Earthship is a concept for living space developed by Mike Reynolds (Solar Survival Architecture), an architect living in Taos, New Mexico. The house is made of old car tires and cans and is bermed into the earth and is VERY friendly to the environment. The cost is primarily for labor, so you can save alot by doing the work yourself. We had to move over 1300 cubic yards of earth: Notice the use of tires as retaining walls. The house is oriented toward the south to capture the sun's rays allowing for the passive heating that is characteristic of the Earthship. The house is kept warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Notice there are only three rooms: a kitchen, main room and a bedroom. The bathroom is located in the bedroom in the front under the greenhouse. All total over 1750 sq. ft. held up by 736 sledge-hammered , earth packed car tires. The roof is held up by these large pine logs called Vegas. That is the kitchen on the right: The glass rests on the short wall of tires in the front. The frame for the glass makes for a lot of light: Old cans are matrixed with concrete and used for the end walls and to capture the bathroom from the alloted bedroom area . All finished except for the clean up: The main entrance, the kitchen: Some early inside shots: Later the garden grows: Notice how the sun only enters a short way in the summer. Then look at the garden........Jungle. And last , the kitchen.................... Let me know what you think. I can share with you all I learned about the process. And perhaps save you some time and money. For further information contact me at: keyfe@earthship.com Discuss it! What do you think about this article? This is important, I want more I found it interesting Ehh, it was OK It's not that significant I don't care Subscribe Now! Special thanks to Jim Pettyjohn for providing these pictures and captions for a look into the functionality and beauty of Earthships. This page also appears as Jim's Earthship Home Page
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